Research Catalog

Title

Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet.

Author

Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965-

Publication

• Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xi, 212 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

"Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a "good life" for themselves and their children in a context complicated by competing demands, economic uncertainties, and structured relations of power. Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers an ethnography of Palomitáy's young women. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people's efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today's Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women's intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of a racial, gendered, and class hierarchies"--

Series Statement

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Uniform Title

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Subject

• Since 1968
• Girls > Peru > Cuzco
• Motherhood > Peru > Cuzco
• Orphanages > Peru > Cuzco
• Girls
• Motherhood
• Orphanages
• Social conditions
• Cuzco (Peru) > Social conditions > 1968-
• Peru > Cuzco

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.

Contents

Young mothers, moral experience, and the politics of care -- Dimensions of precarity and possibility in Peru -- Shaping (modern) mothers in Palomitáy -- Dynamic selves, uncertain desires -- Making images, (re)visioning mothers (a photography workshop) -- Moral dialogues, caring dilemmas (a theater workship) -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 20-3538

ISBN

• 9780252084614
• 0252084616
• 9780252042782
• 0252042786
• 9780252051647 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019950172

OCLC

1125014498

Author

Van Vleet, Krista E., 1965- author.

Title

Hierarchies of care : girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru / Krista E. Van Vleet.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.

Biography

Krista E. Van Vleet is an associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes.

Chronological Term

Since 1968

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3538